{"id":23010,"date":"2026-05-27T03:39:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/?p=23010"},"modified":"2026-05-27T03:39:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:39:04","slug":"the-man-who-saved-hinduism-in-trinidad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2026\/05\/27\/the-man-who-saved-hinduism-in-trinidad\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man Who Saved Hinduism in Trinidad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TRINIDAD, May 19, 2026 (YouTube): Bhadase Sagan Maraj was one of the most important Hindu leaders in Trinidad and Tobago history \u2014 yet many people have never heard his name. At thirteen, his father was murdered while reading the <em>Bhagavad Gita<\/em>. His uncle was later tied to a stone and drowned in the Caroni River. But Bhadase did not disappear into grief. He became a millionaire. He united Trinidad\u2019s Hindus. He helped build the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha. He fought for Hindu schools, Hindu marriages, Hindu cremation rights, and the dignity of a people the colonial system had tried to ignore. This is the story of the man who helped save Hinduism in Trinidad \u2014 and laid a foundation that generations of Caribbean Hindus, are still standing on today. If you grew up in a Caribbean Hindu family, this is a story you need to know.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">source:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fAORInTADv8\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fAORInTADv8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRINIDAD, May 19, 2026 (YouTube): Bhadase Sagan Maraj was one of the most important Hindu leaders in Trinidad and Tobago,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23020,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23010"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23021,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23010\/revisions\/23021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}